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by oelmekki 9y ago
I've been a ruby dev since way before rails, when it was considered "the language to build RPGs" (because of RPGMaker). Go is definitely the language I use the most, those days (go for the backend, react for the frontend). I
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by oelmekki 9y ago
This is a question I usually ask too when I see those used in articles to evaluate a tech's popularity, but for the first time (afaik), it has been addressed in this article, in the section "Do question visits tell a different sto
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by oelmekki 9y ago
That's a hard question. I certainly would not support replacing our nuclear plants with coal plants, I would prefer everyone stay with their current system and we go as fast as possible to replace them with something worth it : trying
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by oelmekki 9y ago
This is a debate we have all the time, here in France, where we chose nuclear energy as main source of energy for several decades. Nowadays, everybody but lobbyists (because for those reasons, nuclear industry is strong, here) seems to agre
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by oelmekki 9y ago
> if they could find away to make Git only work with Github they would in a heart bet. Sorry, but this is unfair :) I remember the early days of Gitlab, before they added all the insanely cool features they have now, when they were just
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Actually, I'm under the impression it's way more common to migrate language or framework than data storage. I externalize most of my business logic to postgres for that reason (plus, it's incredibly performant, especially sin
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Probably common, but they seem to have asked for it. 3 years ago, they published a presentation on slideshare [1] where they explained they were migrating from a monolith to microservices. That could make sense for them, given their size, b
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. We're in a era when the biggest companies have the same means than small to medium countries, this remark is perfectly valid.
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Not sure I would use it, it seems a bit too much of magic to me (coming from ruby, I really love how everything is explicit in go), but this is certainly a clean and well executed idea. Good job, guys!
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Yeah, indeed, I often made this remark myself. This doesn't mean it won't change (core developers could decide to change the rules about limited supply), but this is unlikely. What is more likely is that something like the USDTeth
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by oelmekki 9y ago
I see your point, but then most financial investments could be considered pyramid schemes as people always are vocals about how their investment is great, partly for the feeling of being convinced to be a good investor, partly because value
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by oelmekki 9y ago
So, do you imply that people buying bitcoins then try to sell them to their friends and family? People keep buying, then selling, then buying again, then selling again bitcoins. This hardly qualifies as a pyramid scheme, this is speculation
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by oelmekki 9y ago
In philosophy, it's called an "aristoteles dixit" (Aristotle said), based on the fact that it was often considered proof enough in middle age if an argument was defended by Aristotle. As a meta-meta-comment, this is one of th
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by oelmekki 9y ago
It's not only microservices, either : building frontend apps largely makes RoR less attractive, today. When SPA came around (I prefer to say "web clients", nowadays, since they indeed manage multiple pages and routing), we di
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Using new SO questions as a metric for popularity is kind of weird. I mean, if people keep asking questions and getting answers, at some point people looking for something already have an answer, right? Even when accounting for duplicates,
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Oh, I see, thanks. I get now how it can be a problem when you're used to rely on it and it's not in the language.
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what is the use case for immutable structs? (asking as I'm a ruby/js/go dev and as such I've never used such idiom)
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Indeed - Elliott waves come in mind too. As un-scientific as those ideas can be, not being expressed in any kind of mathematics, they seem to point at some possible reality in growth patterns. Notably, the fact that there's always a pl
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Each time I'm sad we're not exploring galaxy star trek style yet and the space conquest made a flop, I remember how many commercial satellites are around here. It really has this regular taste of things you think just died after b
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by oelmekki 9y ago
It took me a while to find how it interfaces with the system (driver? dedicated application? just drop model and data in a directory which appeared on mounted key?), so I'll post it here. To access the device, you need to install a sdk
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Which also means journalists won't be able to access those videos as sources. Although, I'm not ready to call that a bad decision, because propaganda is indeed the biggest problem with ISIS. This is just treating the symptom, obvi
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Thanks to put that in number. I was unsatisfied with the "not good enough" conclusion after reading it, but couldn't exactly say why. CO2 footprint probably also is better than mentioned. Certainly, it would take 4+ year to p
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Well, if they are global when they are undeclared, that pretty much means they are global by default. Maybe a better way of putting it would be "js variables are declared global by default, when unspecified and not using strict mode&qu
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by oelmekki 9y ago
I see. So, the point made was not so much that the "demon" has to go through complete flush of memory than its arbitration causes small energy waste on its own which compensates for the perceived diminution of entropy in the manip
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by oelmekki 9y ago
This article looks extremely interesting, but there is something that I don't understand and which prevents me to follow the whole reasoning: why does the "demon" has to wipe his memory and why does it cost energy? (instead o
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by oelmekki 9y ago
I'm not sure to get the problem. On the document shown as second picture, it reads (translated) : "Jean Thompson, born the ten floréal year twelve (30 april 1804)". So the regular latin date is clearly mentioned on that docum
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Interesting approach, thanks for mentioning it. I guess it means you have a lot of unsuccessful results? Do you try iterate several times on the same page to find different possible sources for a given info and rank them, or is it something
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I'm actually amazed it manages to scrap minor websites. Scrappers usually have to take in consideration every single website they're targeted at, and they break each time there's a major redesign (or sometimes, a minor one).
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> if peers are able to select their arbitrators, how do you prevent a peer and & arbitrator from gaming the system Actually, it doesn't even need a criminal association : what if arbitrator is malicious? FAQ answers both our que
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> When you want to purchase bitcoins on an exchange, you start out by depositing e.g. dollars on the exchange, thus converting your dollars to that exchange's dollar token (IOU x USD). You then sell your dollar tokens for bitcoin to

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